Electrical drying device



March 18, 1952 E. c. LANDON ELECTRICAL DRYING DEVICE Original Filed March 6, 1946 Zhwentor 'T- a EJTHEB C. ism/0 0/7 (lttorneg Patented Mar. 18, 1952 ELECTRICAL DRYING DEVICE Esther C. Landon, Seattle, Wash.

Original application March 6, 1946, Serial No. 651.903. Divided and this application March 14, 1950, Serial No. 149,586

1 Claim.

This invention relates to electric driers and it has reference more particularly to a drier for small articles such as stockings, handkerchiefs, etc.; and which is formed by combining a novel form of frame structure, on which the articles to be dried may be supported, with an electrically heated appliance such as, for example, an electrically heated fiat iron or hot plate.

The present application is a divisional part of my application filed on March 6, 1946, under Serial No. 651,903, now Patent No. 2,501,683.

It is the principal object of the present invention to provide a drier of simple and practical form especially designed for the convenience of travelers for use in hotel rooms, small apartments or like places where space and facilities for drying are not available and when time for drying is limited.

More specifically stated the present invention resides in the provision of an electric drier that is designed to utilize an electric appliance of the character of that of my above mentioned application as the heating element, and which drier comprises an insulated protective tray for the reception of the said appliance and to which tray telescopically adjustable standards are removably applied for the support, above the heating element, of the articles that are to be dried.

Further objects of the invention reside in the details of construction and combination of parts embodied in the device, and in their mode of use as will hereinafter be fully described.

In accomplishing these and other objects of the invention, I have provided the improved details of construction, the preferred forms of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a drier embodied by the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the protective tray used for containing the heating appliance.

Fig. 3 is a plan View of the tray, showing the heating appliance as applied thereto.

Fig. 4 is a cross section taken substantially on line 4-4 in Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the telescopic, flexible standards that are adapted to be applied to the tray for the support of articles for drying.

For a better understanding of the character of the device of the present invention it will here be explained that in my above mentioned application, of which the present case is a divisional part, I have described an electric flat iron having a flat surfaced body to which a pair of handles are hingedly attached to permit them to be swung into the plane of the ironing surface of the body. The handles as well as the body, contain heating elements, and when they are swung to this plane, the appliance is in the form of a flat, circular body. Also, in the parent application, I have shown an insulated tray in which this flat iron can be held to serve as a hot plate.

The present invention utilizes the insulated tray as a base for the frame structure of the present drier; which frame is completed by the application of a plurality of vertical standards to the tray in such manner that they can serve conjointly as supports for articles to be dried.

Referring more in detail to the drawings- In Fig. 1, the protective tray has been designated in its entirety by reference numeral [0. It is shown to be in the form of a rather shallow, circular container, equipped with fiat bottom Illa, and vertical peripheral side walls lllb. Disposed within the tray, and flatly against the bottom Ina, is a sheet l2 of a suitable heat insulating material, such as asbestos.

In Figs. 1 and 2, I have shown the heating appliance of hot plate form as applied to the tray. This appliance comprises the central flat iron or body portion [5, and the hingedly attached handle portions 16-46. The body l5 and the handles are equipped for being electrically heated. In Fig. 3, heating elements are designated at H, and electric current is supplied thereto through the usual service cord 20 under control of a switch 2|. This heating appliance is designed to be removably disposed in the tray and, as best shown in Fig. 3, the handle members are supported in the tray upon insulating blocks 2525. Asso applied, the heating element can be used as a hot plate, but its primary purpose in the present combination, is to furnish heat for the drying operation.

In order to adapt the device for the support of articles for drying, I have provided the side walls Illb of the trays H3, at intervals about the same, with out-struck loops 40 thus providing upwardly opening sockets 4| designed to receive the shaped lower end portions 50' of flexible, telescopic standards 50 therein for their support. As seen best in Fig. 1 I prefer to use fourpf these standards and to provide for joining the upper ends of paired standards by a sleeve 52, thus to form a sort of umbrella arrangement over the heating element on which articles can be advantageously supported for drying.

The standards 50 may be removed from the tray when not in use and telescoped to a minimum 3 length that permits them to be stored in the tray beneath the iron body. Spring clips, as at 54, are attached to the lower ends of the standards to engage the loops to hold them against accidental displacement.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

In combination, a shallow, insulated tray, and a hot plate appliance removably contained therein for its functional uses, and a plurality of standards removably applied to the'peri-pheral portion of the tray for the support of articles for drying over the hot plate appliance; said standards being telescopically adjustable in length and of flexible material and adapted to be joinedmt their upper ends to provide an umbrella form of support for articles to be dried.

ESTHER C. LANDON.

4 REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,914,190 Herr June 13, 1933 1,994,284 Martinek Mar. 12, 1935 2,084,854 McCarthy June 22, 1937 10 189,366 Montague Feb. 6, 1940 2,470,646 Richardson May 17, 1949 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date "452 319 'Great'Britain Aug. 20, 1936 

